Movie
Silent Night, Deadly Night
It’s a classic set-up. Boy moves to new town. Boy meets girl. Boy catches wind of girl’s creepy…
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Lovers Actually at the Other Palace
If there’s anything one can say for Richard Curtis’s unkillable 2003 rom-com behemoth Love Actually (as its imminent…
By Thomas Messner
Theatre
Elf the Musical returns to London with a new cast and a festive home at the Aldwych Theatre
Debuting on Broadway in November 2010, it’s been a long road for Elf, the musical adaptation of Jon…
By Thomas Messner
Play
After Sunday at Bush Theatre
We begin with a jarring technical display, as fragmentary, staccato sounds and lights usher the principal cast onstage.…
By Thomas Messner
LFF
& Sons
In Bill Nighy’s long and illustrious career, the soused, washed-up crooner Billy Mack in Love Actually looms large, along with…
By Thomas Messner
Play
Scenes from the Climate Era at The Playground Theatre
We begin with a dismaying scene, not only for its contents but for its very form. A couple…
By Thomas Messner
Play
The Importance of Being Earnest at Noël Coward Theatre
In many respects, Oscar Wilde’s famously bawdy farce is shaded in most poignantly by a work that came…
By Thomas Messner
Play
Reunion at Kiln Theatre
A jilted former lover has made his return to the fray, whipping up a melodramatic storm amidst a…
By Thomas Messner
Play
The Switchboard Project at Hope Theatre
James Baldwin nestled on the bookshelf, a whiteboard sporting the words, “There are condoms in my pigeon hole…
By Thomas Messner
Movie
2,000 Metres to Andriivka
For those of us fortunate enough never to have entered a warzone, there are primary reference points to…
By Thomas Messner